Saturday Session with Bishop

January 21, 2012

Podcast update

  • Bishop talks opens the show and talks about some stories from Illinois - MP3 Download
  • Politics is the focus with an evaluation of the media narrative for the GOP nomination process - MP3 Download
  • As the polls closed in South Carolina, Bishop covered the absurdity of reports from the MSM - MP3 Download
  • A quick run-though of News on the March - MP3 Download

Show brief

The first live Saturday Session of 2012 is tonight and there is so much to cover. We'll keep a close eye on the incoming results from the South Carolina Primary, discuss the past two election (Iowa Caucus & New Hampshire Primary), SOPA/PIPA and more. Tune in tonight from 3 to 7p CST on 970 WMAY, The News and Talk of Springfield, online at www.WMAY.com.

Illinois

Several stories on the Illinois front to cover with Saturday Session: videos being destroyed by police a no-no, according to the courts, Chicago's DHS money called into question after waste discovered, Chicago planning for the G-8/NATO summits and the state to close down two state-run facilities transferring patients to community care facilities. We'll go through these and other stories to open the show.

Shaking up the GOP

What a tumultuous week for the Republican Party! Two debates, two candidates drop, results changed in Iowa and a primary today, a scorned ex-wife speaks ... What more could a political junky ask for? We'll go through some of the latest developments and discuss what that means for the rest of the primary season.

South Carolina

Sometime throughout the show, the numbers from the South Carolina primary will begin to trickle in. Who is slated to win? Will there be some trickery or some precincts failing to report as was the case in Iowa? We'll keep a close eye on the numbers being reported to the South Carolina Elections Commission to give you the latest tallies of their presidential preference elections.

Voter fraud

Who would have thought that there would be voter fraud in Iowa? It's a caucus after all and there doesn't seem to be much room for stuffing ballots. But when the numbers were reported at the close of the caucuses weeks ago it was determined that Mitt Romney was the winner with Rick Santorum falling short by just 8 votes. Ron Paul took a third place ticket out of Iowa. Now there are numbers being reported that flipped the first and second positions. How could there be different numbers reported weeks after the initial results were made public? We'll explore the reasons and shed the light on possible vote fraud. Also, a very revealing video out of New Hampshire shows that it is very easy to grab someone else's ballot, even a dead person, and cast a vote. Is it time to start checking ID for voters?

Media Manipulation

It is not a joke, it is not some crazy "conspiracy theory" ... thought, it is a theory ... an agenda-setting theory. Who dictates what is of importance in today's news? Do the people, policy makers or media decide? There's undoubtedly a rich relationship between all three. Sadly, corporate controlled media has a strong understanding about how to sway public opinion and have been doing so for a very long time using recommendations prescribed by author of Propaganda, Edward Bernays. “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.” Bernays is considered the father of modern day public relations.

When you consider Bernays tasked the policy makers to "learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public" you get a better understanding about how today's media works with the "invisible government" of men whom most have never heard of, you begin to realize that corporate controlled media is constantly working to mold your opinions to match their agenda.

The agenda-setting theory doesn't always work for the team of policy makers/corporate controlled media ... it can be swayed the other way with the public on top. A prime example of that is evident in this week's online protests against SOPA/PIPA.

So much more

Having not been able to rant for all of 2012, Bishop will cover some of the issues that have slipped by like the marines caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters, eugenics survivors getting settlement from the government, Chris Hedges on CSPAN and so much more.

Contact

Saturday Session airs every Saturday from 3 to 7 PM CST on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield. You can contact Bishop many different ways. Check out Bishop's Google Profile for more links and information. Get the latest podcasts and "Like" Bishop ON Air on Facebook. During the show, call 217.629.7970 and email anytime Bishop@WMAY.com.